Tamara Lee Tigard Burial

Tamara Lee "Tammy Tigard was born on April 18, 1959 in Alameda County, California to parents James Lee "Jimmy" Tigard (1935-2006) and Patsy Joann Young Tigard (1933-2001). She had one sister Cynthia Rae Butts (1961 - 2010). She served in the U.S. Army. Tammy married Chadwick Carr in 1979, though their marriage reportedly only lasted a few months before they divorced. For unknown reasons, Tammy went missing during a walk near her home in March of 1980. She was found several weeks later on April 18, which would’ve been her 21st birthday, but her identity was unknown at that time. Her mummified body was discovered along the North Canadian River near Jones in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. She had suffered three gunshot wounds, indicating her death was a homicide. One of the wounds contained clothing fibers and a dime, believed to have been embedded by a .45 caliber bullet. Despite quicklime being used on her remains, intended to hasten decomposition, it paradoxically helped preserve her body, leading to her being dubbed "Lime Lady." Her case was unsolved for more than four decades, until an unlikely DNA match with her cousin was used to finally identify the Lime Lady as Tammy. See more at Home at Last . On April 18, 2022, she was finally laid to rest at the Valley View Cemetery next to her parents.